The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
WHAT'S II ALL ABOUT?
LOT lis Calmly Look Into Inc
Natter.
EDITOR FREEMAN:

zbout between Dlo'
IUdge Ferguson. do not under
stsnd that Bro. Carskadon wants
nrohibition party organized for
be nurpose OF carrvingthe Amend
ment in West Virginia. He does
not so much as hint at such q thing.
Tbs Amendment was submitted as
unon.political" measure, and as a
otter of course should be advocat-
ID and carried as such. But here
question. Has not the Prohi-
6ition party in West Virginia as
cood right to put candidates in
Ebe field as any other party it they
choose to do go? If not, why not?
b. the old parties want the party
orohibitionists to lift their han de
Ind swear that they won't put for
Yard candidates before they (mem-
hers of the old parties will agree
b support the Amendment? 1t
keems so. But there is no sense in
Euch demand. the idea of Re-
bu blican or Democrat going against
Prohibition, the very thing his
FAMILY needs, the thing most desir-
sble for his community and the
etate at large, the thing commanded
In the word of God, and demanded
by the moral elements of the ma
kion, simply because man is be-
Ing run for this or that office by
mother party, is both wicked and
jdiotic.
u If Prohibition is right why should
hot every man who votes from
principle and wishes to do right,
ku pport it? To one looking on it
appears too much like systematic
#ff5rt to brow beat and bulldoze
the Prohibition party into the back
rround. Albert Griffen, the great
champion of the anti saloon RepuD.
Leans, recently confessed in a pub
bic discussion in New York City,
that the Prohibition party averag-
ed higher in intelligence and NOR
al worth, than any other party in
existence, To try to deter such a
party from it's purposes by threats of
This, that and the other, is simply
waste OF time. Suppose the old
parties should bring out men for
gubernatorial honors, avowedly
committed to the liquor interests /;
would Judge Ferguson have the
Aprohibitionists of those par
ties, as we'll as Third party
zProhibitionists, support them ?
So it seems, for he denies
ns the right to name anoth.
Der candidate, because, forsooth,
Somebody in that event might vote
against the Amendment. 1t is we'll
Understood that for come time the
possibility of new party through
put the country as protest against
he corruption of the old parties,
has tended to hold those parties
n check, and to make them more
prudent in their selection of men
or office. They have feared q
break among the better class of
oters, hence the predicament in
Fhich they find themselves in try
ng to conciliate both the temper
nce and whisky elements of the
fountry. Now let it be understood
mat under no circumstances will
he prohibitionists put forward
candidates next year, and at once
ne way is opened for the whisky
md beer elements to control the
dominating conventions. Nothing
{ould be more natural than this
I we handicap the prohibitionists
mo swear them to say and do moth
ing outside of the Amendment.
Ii 1t is in order in this country
pr a party prohibitionist to
ay anything at all, I will ask this
uestlon OF the leading tenn perance
Pen of the old parties? If the
nlrd party Prohlbitionists will
gree to make no nominations next
ear In West Virginia will you see
1t that only ouch men are nom
pated in the old parties as will be
Sceptahle to the sober, law-abiding
Shrlstlan voters of the State2 Let
zen men as Judge Ferguson and
TO- A. b. White answer. If you
n make no promises, how in the
me OF reason can you exact a
euge of us on the other hand,